IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS IN GERMANY

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14025, 17 January 1918, Page 6

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS IN GERMANY

i.. ■ \ PAN-GERMANS ATTEMPT TO INTMIDjJLTE THE ; KAISER, POLICY OP ANNEXATION SUGGESTED. (AnstrnUan ami irew Zealand" cabla AaswiatMß.) Received January 16", at 8.15 p.m.. AMSTERDAM, January 15. • The Socialist newspaper Vodwaerts reports r that it is stated The Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts report's that it is stated to wholesale annexation on the East and .West, which would in-., volve the imniediate.resignation of Herr yflti: KuMmann. s KAISER CONSULTING POLITICIANS AND DIPLOMATS, ' (Australian and New Zeaiana Cabi« Aiioolattoa.) AMSTERDAM;; January 15. -A wireless message says: The Kaiser has summoned Dr'von • Kuhlmann, Prince von Bulow, and Countßernstorffto Berlin, also the Ministers aj The.Hague, Berne, and Copenhagen, to'epusuitthem regarding impending Ministerial changes. ' ~, The Berliner Tageblatt says that Dr Hertling is seriously ill, owing to overwork. ' •■ ;.li: /'.',.,. " The Morning Post announces the impending resignation' of von Valentine, the Kaiser's Chief Civilian Secretary. ->' ; ; Great political changes in the upperpersonnehare foreshadowed;, The Kaiser is consulting German diplomats initial countries , adjoining.Germany. This'is regarded;:as signifj|a'ft!t, ■; ' the latest discussions on war aims. :;;./' " • .'..-' RItfORTED ASCENDANCY OF MILITARY. PARTY. •: • ANNEXATION- POLISH POLICY UNALTERED. j , (Aiistviilian and N'r.v; ZnmA Uahit Asiooiatlos.J , Received January 16, at 11.30 p.m. .' ',, ; LONDON, January' 15v Messages from Berlin'indicate that the military party has gained the upper hand. ■lt is semi-officially announced that there is no change in the official decisions on the Polish question. BOLSHEVIK] REIGN OF MADNESS FURTHER ARGUMENT AT PEACE CONFERENCE, . WARM EXCHANGES BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS. i .....•• i and- New AMSTRDaI, January 16 % ' r Dr von Kuhlmann, speaking at the negotiations adopted,the standpoint that those portions o£ Russia that were striving to obtain separation were already qualified ..to conclude agreements with Germany. M. Trotsky replied that the present representative bodies could not prove that they spoke in the. name of the entire people of Russia. Dr von Kjuhlmann and Count Czernin intimated that they were willing to invite the representatives of these sections to BrestLitovsk. M. Trotsky replied lint the territories concerned had no democratic representative bodies. ' i \ The Russian delegates then proposed strong conditions regarding the right of self-determination for these peoples. I 1 lt:rr Hoffman protested that the Russians spoke as if they were , the conquering party. The German army command refused to evacuate Courland, Li;iuiauia, aud the Riga Islands. The negotiations were adjourned. ARREST OF OFFICIALS AT RUMANIAN LEGATION. i ■ > ANOTHER INEXPLICABLE BOLSHEVIK! ACTION. Uaitiallan and New Ztalani Cabla Aiioolitloa.) COPENHAGEN, January 15. i The Bolshevikis have arrested members of the Rumanian Legation at Pctrograd. The reason is not disclosed. Britain hearing weight of burden. * STRUGGLE FOR REINS OF GOVERNMENT. ' BOLSHEVIKI VERSUS THE CONSTITUENT, ASSEMBLY. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) LONDON, January 15. The Petrograd correspondent of The Daily News reports'that . the Constituent Assembly is fixed to meet on Friday, when the antiBolshevik majority will try to replace the Bolstievikis by a meeker Government committed to securing peace by pressure'-upon the Al- . lies. The Bolshevikis are preparing to set up, a new. conference, of Soviets in opposition to the Constituent Assembly., 'During the last few,days the Bolshevikis.had dismissed all the officials of the Ministry of Finance, and had decreed compulsory labour. Religion was not to be taught in the schools, and probably they will issue a decree abolishing the right of inheritance. ARREST OF RUMANIANS. EXPLAINED. , IiOLSjIKVIKf CARRYING OUT REPRISALS.., (Anstralian and New Zealand dabte A-stoeiatloß.) ; -■ • ■ Received January 16, at 11-30 p.m. STOCKHOLM, January 15. The anest of the Rumanian Legation is supposed to have been a lepusal for the a)rest of the Maximalist agitators at P-iassy. RUSSIA ALLEGED GUILTY OF CONSISTENCYi—/■ RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION OF OPPOSING FACTORS. . (Australian and Not Zoalwd OaMe Anoclatlon.) , r AMSTERDAM, January 15.' '» At BiestLito\sk, Herr Hoffman declared that the Russian delegation demanded'the lights of self-determination foi occupied teinton, illicit did not apph to their own country. The Governiinjiit u.is loiunM puiVlv ( on llu* power AUth nine)) to ruthlessly suppress all flunk Ev/nyoncnvilh had been declared an onilnw IlerrlloiTma'ii instances tlio u Ma\imn vliit outrage upon the bourgeoisie and counter-revolutionary people. * No date has been fixed for the next meeting " ,- ; "- ,